Hi,

I have CentOS 5 running. When I empty the trash can, then the trash of HD2 is not deleted. It is also not visible in the trash can.

Looks like the trash(deleted files) of HD2 are not linked to the trash can on my desktop.

How can I fix it that when I delete the trash can that the trash of HD2 also gets deleted.

Thanks in advance.

Since the trash can is actually nothing but a folder called .Trash stored on each hard drive, the easiest solution is of course to simply run:

rm -rf /media/HD2/.Trash

or something similar.

I suppose that's exactly what the 'empty trash' button does. I have no clue about how to link this command to the GUI button though. If you just wanna empty trash, just typing the command in a terminal will suffice of course.

Hi Tom,

Thanks for your reaction.
But what I want is that on the desktop I right click on the trash can, choose for empty trash, and that then the trash of all hd's is deleted.

Thanks in advance.

I understand, I've got no idea about how to do that though. I know that trash cans are somewhat user specific though, perhaps a further investigation in what the .Trash (or .Trashes sometimes) look like, what permissions and owner they've got etc might yield some insight? Compare the working ones with the broken ones. Do you know how to do this?

Another option is to add commands like I suggested in my previous post into a script that you put on the desktop, so all you'll need to do is double clicking on that icon to empty all the trashes. That I can tell you how to do (its really easy).


Someone else got an idea?